Actors Margaret Qualley (Maid), Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame) and Guy Pearce (Memento) are in final talks to join Jacob Elordi (Salt Burn) in Ridley Scott’s upcoming post-apocalyptic drama The Dog Stars. Scott is just coming off of releasing Gladiator II, one of the highest grossing films in the filmmaker’s career.
Screenwriter Mark L. Smith (Revenant, Twisters) adapted the script, based on the novel by Peter Heller. Smith created and wrote Netflix’s recent series American Primeval, the Peter Berg-directed series, which left Scott saying he was blown away by the edgy historical tale.
In the film, “Elordi plays Hig, a crop duster pilot living on an abandoned Colorado airfield isolated in the foothills of a mountain range and the Great Plains and long deserted farm land and small towns. We discover that society has changed profoundly. Whoever has survived strives to exist within these tragic circumstances.
“Hig shares the spartan amenities of the base with a ‘Ranger’ called Bangley, played by Josh Brolin. They are obliged to tolerate each other in sharing and navigating this dangerous and uncompromising new world.
“Daily but systematically, Hig pilots his 50 year old Cessna with his only friend, an elderly beloved dog Jasper, his cockpit companion. Searching in ever widening diameters to find and replenish diminishing supplies, but most importantly ‘his quest’ in believing in his question that there must be a world out there.
“On his last and deepest ‘search,’ he is obliged to crash land on a small ranch where he meets Cima played by Margaret Qualley, an intern doctor, the daughter of a protective world-weary rancher, played by Guy Pearce who fiercely guards his kin and “fortress.” This encounter evolves into a possible and intelligent future for all.”
The film will reteam Scott with Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin, who he previously worked with on Universal’s acclaimed American Gangster. This is also as a reteam for Scott and Academy Award nominee Pearce, who collaborated on Prometheus.
The Dog Stars is still in pre-production, so stay tuned for updates as it moves forward.
via: Deadline
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